We had our onsite meeting with our site supervisor this morning. After our initial panic that the cut and fill was not done correctly, he has alleviated all our concerns.
He ran us through the prospective pegging of the house. He reassured us that a larger area is flattened for the pad than required to ensure adequate space for materials, trades, scaffolding, machinery. The cut for the sunken garage is also deliberately further back into the pad than where it will end up for foundation reasons. So it seems we will end up with the appropriate space for a backyard and slab behind the garage.
In terms of the front yard, the excess soil that has been put there and flattened is temporary. This will also provide a space for the scaffolding, trades etc. So our 1 metre retaining wall can go in now, but there will just be a lot of soil piled up high behind it. Once the house is finished and the scaffolding dismantled, the excess soil will be taken away from the front. This flat pad will then be tapered off into a slope down to the 1 metre retaining wall as planned.
PHEW! The things you learn in the process of a build! Our last block of land had the cut, fill and retaining done before it was sold to us and was ready to build on. So these aspects to our current build are very new (and scary) to us.
We are just waiting for the documents to be sent through to us to sign and take possession of the property again so the retaining can be done. Our retaining guy is very keen to get started and had dropped off machinery and rocks over the weekend to get started asap. So we were very concerned that any error in the cut, fill and exportation would delay our retaining guy, who seems very keen and gung-ho about getting our walls in.
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